Behringer vintage tube monster review

[Mikelamury]

I got my behringer vintage tube monster in over the weekend and it is a very good sounding tube distortion circuit with a 3 band EQ and a noise gate built-in. it's also big enough to have it's own time zone! Came with a wall wart 9V adapter. It came with a bugera 12ax7c tube in it that was kinda bright but had a good amount of gain. I replaced the stock tube with a ruby 12AX7HG and it sounds more round with a little more gain. All over a better sound. Im pretty impressed for a behringer pedal. It was only $99 and I can totally see myself replacing a preamp with this thing and just run pedals into this into a power amp of my choice. Not to sound like a broken record but this pedal sounds great! It is not just warm overdrive it will get very nasty distortion before it maxes out. This was a very good find in my book for only $99!

 

[Mincer]

Thanks for the review! I always wondered about these pedals, and I've never been completely sold on drive pedals with tubes. I didn't like the Mesa V Twin, or the SD Twin Tube, but I will have to try this one. Is it based on any well known pedal?

 

[Mikelamury]

Thanks for the review! I always wondered about these pedals, and I've never been completely sold on drive pedals with tubes. I didn't like the Mesa V Twin, or the SD Twin Tube, but I will have to try this one. Is it based on any well known pedal?

I'm not sure if it's based off anything popular but it definitely has a unique sound. It's not like a marshall but not completely like an American high gain amp either but closer and it seems to be pretty responsive to tube changes. At $99 it's worth a try and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

Edit: you have the choice of running into the front of a clean amp or just using the power amp of your choice so with that and the preamp tube changes you can probably make this thing sound alot of different ways.

 

[Chistopher]

If you're into pedal modding, this is a fairly popular mod for it.

https://www.aguitarforum.com/posts/behringer-vintage-tube-monster-vt999-mod.17254

A great way to get into basic pedal modding at low cost and risk.

 

[strat dude]

Cool, I have the TC Electronics Tube Pilot which is more simpler (?) but close to the same pedal (?). Berhringer bought TC, and this is close from what I have read. Any how I put a 12AY7 in it and love how it beefs up strats, a lot.

 

[Mikelamury]

Cool, I have the TC Electronics Tube Pilot which is more simpler (?) but close to the same pedal (?). Berhringer bought TC, and this is close from what I have read. Any how I put a 12AY7 in it and love how it beefs up strats, a lot.

I was curious about the tube pilot. Does it go all the way to nasty distortion or does it pretty much do warm overdrive?(when it has the 12ax7 tube in it)

 

[strat dude]

I was curious about the tube pilot. Does it go all the way to nasty distortion or does it pretty much do warm overdrive?(when it has the 12ax7 tube in it)

I've been using it a lot with my Club 18 which I run somewhat dirty, with a strat it's not too dirty but not fender clean for sure. But the Tube pilot acts like a third channel for my amp, sounding very much like actual amp overdrive and man does it sound good. I run the overdrive knob at about 9 to 10 o-clock and it just really adds some beef. Any more than that and it starts to get woofy, like an old Tweed Deluxe maxed out. With the 12AX7 it was about too much on the lowest setting, but I am not playing through a super clean amp either.

 

[Hsb]

Thanks for the review! I always wondered about these pedals, and I've never been completely sold on drive pedals with tubes. I didn't like the Mesa V Twin, or the SD Twin Tube, but I will have to try this one. Is it based on any well known pedal?

Its a clone of the Ibanez TK999 Tube King

 

[Mincer]

Its a clone of the Ibanez TK999 Tube King

Oh cool. I remember the ads for that, but never tried one.

 

[Aceman]

Thanks for the review! I always wondered about these pedals, and I've never been completely sold on drive pedals with tubes. I didn't like the Mesa V Twin, or the SD Twin Tube, but I will have to try this one. Is it based on any well known pedal?

I love the Mayhem pedal.